The best of present-day Beethoven scholarship. - observes Stanley Sadie, editor of New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Since 1992, the University of Nebraska Press has published a Beethoven Forum, which is rich in information and knowledge. Fundamental research and topicality, once the domain of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, are admirably combined in the Forum. - says Der Spiegel. Glenn Stanley opens Beethoven Forum 6 with a consideration of the piano sonata culture of the late eighteenth century and how Beethoven's ...
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The best of present-day Beethoven scholarship. - observes Stanley Sadie, editor of New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Since 1992, the University of Nebraska Press has published a Beethoven Forum, which is rich in information and knowledge. Fundamental research and topicality, once the domain of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, are admirably combined in the Forum. - says Der Spiegel. Glenn Stanley opens Beethoven Forum 6 with a consideration of the piano sonata culture of the late eighteenth century and how Beethoven's sonatas influenced this culture. Lawrence Kramer explores the Tempest sonata and the way it exemplifies one of the leading intellectual projects of the Enlightenment, the project of speculative anthropology or 'universal history.' Elaine R. Sisman examines the lyrical, small-scale sonatas of Beethoven's middle period in relation to his renewed preoccupation with the idea of fantasia. Nicholas Marston concludes the volume's consideration of the piano sonatas with a study of the development of a musical idea in the Hammerklavier sonata. Birgit Lodes examines the relationship between the human and the divine as they are represented in the Glo
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